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turbed by another sound, they forthwith ro-arrange themselves in 

 some other equally beautiful figure, and answering to the voice 

 that speaks to them, form after form in wonderful perfection comes 

 forth." Thus do organic beings answer the voice of nature, sym- 

 pathetically responding to her call. 



It now becomes us to inquire whether man forms an exception 

 to this law of the control of physical agencies over organic forms? 

 Can it be that man to whom alone is given the control of nature's 

 forces, is, at the same time, their servant ? Can it be that he who 

 can temper the seasons in any part of the globe, soften the rigor 

 of a northern winter, and dissipate the long darkness of its night, 

 create commerce, and feed himself, if need be, from distant conti- 

 nents, — can it.be that such a being must bow in obedience to the 

 same laws that work such transformations in his corn and wheat, 

 his cattle and horses ? It may be, and yet he be called upon to lay 

 aside no part of the glory that pertains to him as the rightful lord 

 of this lower world. 



In looking for evidences of the operations of the same influences 

 upon the human organization, that have now been noticed in the 

 other realms of nature, the first and most obvious climatic change 

 in man is found in the varied complexion the same race exhibits in 

 different localities. The most satisfactory illustrations upon this 

 point are furnished by the Jews, becayse of the almost universal 

 opinion regarding the unity of their origin. To assume the exis- 

 tence of two distinct Hebrew tribes, as some writers have done, 

 the one auburn, the other black-haired, will not explain the facts 

 presented by the widely diflering hues of these Ilebrcw children 

 now scattered throughout the civilized world, for on the ground of 

 a common origin, whence the two distinct branches ? The Jew of 

 northern Europe is fair in complexion, with blue eyes and sandy 

 beard. The Palestine Jew is tawny. As we travel towards the 

 equator the tint deepens ; and in Malabar we find him almost black. 

 Tlie Indo-European family, derived beyond intelligent questioning 

 from a common center, present all shades of color, from the fairest 

 blonde to the deepest brown. Travellers, in passing from south- 

 eastern Europe to southern India, say that in crossing elevated 

 regions, tlie deepening tint is broken through and a fairer com- 

 plexion comes out, when the temperature is lower than in the 

 valleys, thus exhibiting a strict correspondence to the plant-zones 

 already referred to on the sides of mountains. On the slopes of 

 the Himalaya mountains, the people are brown or olive-colored, 



